Time passed quickly, all the preliminary preparations were in place, and at this time, even the last important supporting role, the warrior played by Christian was in place, speaking of which, the process of finding Christian was the easiest, Zhou Shaoming hadn't said what kind of role it was, he agreed to the convenience, and he didn't even ask for the payment, Christian was just as excited as Angelina and didn't know what to do, and this kind of performance still surprised Zhou Shaoming a little.

But when you think about it, it makes sense, for actors like Christian, what they value is the process of making the best movie, so as to gain a foothold in Hollywood, rather than worrying about how much money can be made from the movie in front of them.

That's why Christian came out on top in Hollywood, and God always leaves the opportunity to those who are ready, not to the short-sighted ones who can only dream about it.

After returning to the company, Zhou Shaoming threw Christian into the reception room and ran directly to Jon, when he just walked to the office, he saw Jon smoking a cigar over there with a calm look, and after seeing the boss coming, Jon quickly snuffed out the cigarette, and then asked with a little embarrassment: "Boss, why are you here?" ”

Zhou Shaoming smiled slightly, and said to Jon with a happy expression on his face: "Jon, if you want to smoke, you can smoke well, you are not allowed to smoke when you are usually working, but today, I made an exception to allow you to smoke once." ”

"Oh? Boss, did you encounter anything happy? "I listened to the boss. Jon took out a cigar from his pocket, first handed one to Zhou Shaoming, lit it for him, and then picked up another cigarette and put it in his mouth, while asking curiously.

Zhou Shaoming took a sharp puff of cigarette, then spit out the smoke ring, and after breathing a heavy sigh of relief, he smiled and said, "Well, just now." I had everything ready and was ready to start shooting. ”

"Oh? Congratulations to the boss. Jon said with a smile when he saw that his boss was happy. He has been busy these days, and finally after taking care of everything today, he was busy smoking a cigarette, but he didn't expect to be bumped into by Zhou Shaoming, "Fortunately, the boss is in a good mood." Jon thought to himself.

"Well, Jon, you can help me connect with our actors this time. And then my new assistant director, Benjamin, brought them all to the Hilton. Let's have a meeting tonight, get to know each other, and the day after tomorrow, we will officially start filming. After smoking, Zhou Shaoming told the purpose of his coming to Jon.

The actors are all together, so naturally they need to get to know each other first, so Zhou Shaoming has this idea.

After listening to Zhou Shaoming's words, Jon made an "ok" gesture, and then said to Zhou Shaoming: "Okay." Boss, then again, where did you put the location for this shooting? ”

"Greece, Thermopylae." Since he was going to shoot an epic war movie, Zhou Shaoming naturally wanted to restore this location to the greatest extent, so Zhou Shaoming simply put the location in Greece.

However, the most important reason is that there is not much time left for Zhou Shaoming, in the original time and space. The entire "Spartan Three Hundred" was completed in front of the green cloth, which has the advantage of greatly saving shooting costs, and the disadvantage is that the special effects will take longer to complete than normal shooting.

You must know that a large group of crew members are 100 people, and they are going to the filming location. The cost of carriage and accommodation is astronomical, and the cost of big-name stars is even more.

But Zhou Shaoming doesn't care about the increase in costs, in his opinion, the most important thing is to speed up and complete the task of "box office war" of the director system.

In fact, there is a private reason for choosing Greece, Zhou Shaoming had promised Christina before, and after being busy with the actions during this time, the two would go out to play together, have a trip around the world or something, according to Zhou Shaoming's meaning, take advantage of the shooting gap of the three hundred Spartan warriors this time, have a good time in Greece for a few days, and then come back.

Listening to Zhou Shaoming's words, Jon nodded, and hurriedly patted his ass: "The boss is wise, I actually chose such a good place, I originally thought it would be done in the studio." ”

"Hurry up and arrange the manpower, I still have something to do." After the order, Zhou Shaoming left Jon's office, leaving Jon alone to arrange the entire crew.

As for Zhou Shaoming, he came to the reception room of the supernova company again, at this moment Christian was quietly watching Zhou Shaoming on the sofa and watching Zhou Shaoming give him the script before, that dedicated look made Zhou Shaoming's eyes light up, he rarely saw someone read the script and read it so devotedly.

Zhou Shaoming didn't bother him, just sat quietly on the side, reading today's newspaper, the news in the newspaper was mainly about the aftermath of the 729 incident, and more than 20 days had passed since the 729 incident.

After a short period of grief, the American people finally entered a state of anger, and the call for war to eliminate the terrorist forces was getting louder and louder, and the White House seemed to have begun to start a war under the pressure of the people.

Everything was expected by Zhou Shaoming, without any deviation, and Zhou Shaoming also knew that in the coming September, the United States would directly send troops to Afghanistan.

This is completely different from Frank's conjecture at the beginning, thinking of this, the corners of Zhou Shaoming's mouth couldn't help flashing a sneer, when Frank rejected himself, he wouldn't have thought that there would be today, right?

When he was thinking like this, the mobile phone suddenly vibrate, because he was afraid that it would disturb Christian, Zhou Shaoming adjusted the mobile phone to the vibration when he came in, and when he saw that there was a vibration in his pocket, Zhou Shaoming didn't have time to see who it was, so he hurriedly ran outside the reception room.

took out the mobile phone and took a look, it was really said that whoever came, this call turned out to be from Frank, although he was very unhappy with what the other party said to him at the beginning, but at this time Zhou Shaoming was in a good mood, so he forgave Frank.

Thinking about it, Zhou Shaoming just connected the phone, and as soon as he connected, a familiar low voice came from the other side, it was the boss of Lionsgate-Frank.

At this moment, I only heard Frank say in a low and hoarse voice, "Dear Smith Zhou, I am sorry for the rudeness I was to you before. How about leaving the past behind, let's work together on the three hundred warriors of Sparta, and divide it according to the old rules! Forget about Jon's business, since he has taken refuge in you, I will let him stay with you, what do you think? ”

Zhou Shaoming couldn't help but laugh, he smashed a lot of dollars, and at this time, Frank came to think of the benefits of the fisherman, and he underestimated himself too much.

Perhaps, it is the current state of the American people that let the sensitive Frank know that his choice is the right one.

This is the face of the capitalist, because of disagreement, some time ago he was still scolding Zhou Shaoming for not understanding the film market at all, but now he saw the signs of his failure but he lowered his voice and had ulterior motives. Thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming just snorted in his nostrils and didn't want to pay attention to it at all.

It's hard for Zhou Shaoming to imagine now how he has cooperated with him so many times, but it seems that he has been discussing things with Jon before. Thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming was a little better, Jon was better than Frank, but he didn't know how many times better.

Obviously, Jon himself took the initiative to come to Supernova Pictures, but now that Frank said this, it has become like Frank generously letting Jon come over, thinking of this, Zhou Shaoming said coldly: "I'm sorry, Mr. Frank, I am now fully capable of shooting a film by myself, and please make it clear that Jon came to Supernova Pictures voluntarily, and he has nothing to do with you now." So, I'm sorry, I can't agree with your proposal at all. ”

"You ......" Frank seemed to be very angry, but before he could say anything, Zhou Shaoming hung up the phone directly, and after hanging up, he still raised his middle finger at the mobile phone with hatred, and then put away the mobile phone and walked into the reception room.

For Frank, Zhou Shaoming now completely recognized his face, and he didn't bother to say anything more to him, "To hell with Lionsgate." Zhou Shaoming has such an idea in his heart now.

The salary is solved, the copyright is solved, the actor problem is solved, and the crew can be arranged at any time, so the next thing is much simpler, have a meeting tonight, then rest for a day, and finally go directly to Greece.

After dealing with everything, Zhou Shaoming rarely rested in the office for a while, and randomly selected a newspaper to read.

When he got the newspaper, Zhou Shaoming soon saw that the first page of the newspaper was full of a few big words: "Afghanistan, the cradle of terrorism, destroy it!" ”

Zhou Shaoming calculated the time, but it was almost the same, and when the filming of Sparta started, it was estimated that it was when the United States marched into Afghanistan in a big way, thinking, Zhou Shaoming couldn't help but smile, this is probably some kind of coincidence, the United States started the war, and he was filming war films, and the two coincided.

After reading the news about the 729 incident, Zhou Shaoming began to turn up the entertainment sector again, there is no big news in Hollywood recently, but he still saw a message that made him feel very crisis, that is, Pete? Jackson's classic fantasy war masterpiece "The Lord of the Rings" has been roughly completed, and it is expected to be released in December.

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